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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
January 18, 1939.
They Said Crinolines
Were Coming
For some months now de- signers have said that hoops:
And they are coming back.
certainly have, and not only as a freak fashion, either. Re- cently you saw pictures of the Quern and the Duchess of Glou-
wearing them: cester
the Duchess of Kent has a black crinaline dress tou.
Here are three crinolines; you may not feel you can narr pate the honest-to-gomincas hooped dress, but why not sway ant in one of the other two madera, more feasible versiona? Their jashion details are be low.
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Wakes with a smile --- ALWAYS
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Getting A Fire
To Go
YOUR thoughts have turned now
from blue sens and warm sands to cosy armchairs and a blazing fire. Too often a fire is provokingly dieult to start, and tempers get hot i while the rate remains cold. Try Are: these four ways of lighting n one of them is certain to suit your fire Krate.
For each method be sure that the firewood and paper are thoroughly dry, and put a few elders and small lusob of coal in the bottom of the grate, as fire burns down as well as upwards.
Put a sheet of lightly crumpled newspaper in the grate. Wrap ench piece of frewood Separately in wax paper taken from food packages, pile the wond crosswise, and cover well with small knobs of coal.
Sook two large pieces of ecke in a jar of paraffin overnight. Place these In the grate, stuck the coal lightly above, and light at once.
Fold single sheet of newspaper sluntwise from corner to corner, then fold over in one inch width until you have
leng narrow strip. Tie this once In the venire, turn it over and tie again. Make a good supply of; these knots and dry thoroughly before using. Put five or six in the grate and heap small cool over them, The fourth method is a man's way, Uchily a slow but sure. Crumple sheel of newspaper in the bottom of the replace, and set it alight. With coal tongs place on the sticks of firewood. Wait until the wood ly well alight, then gently put the enal un, slowly piling it up. small knobs: first, then larger ones, as the trut pieces become light.
the
Two old-fashioned devices to "draw up" the Bre are not to be des pised-a draw tin and bellows. The draw tin is a sheet of strong metal with
a handle in the centre, and should be lurge enough to tover whole fireplace. Stand it in front of! the fire for five or ten minutes, and the fire will burn up very quickly. A tile persuasion with a strong pair ot bellows will soon have the same cheery effect.
Cleaning Chintz And Cretonne
To get the best results from the
sary
washing of cretonnes, it is neces- to be very careful in their
handling. Material that has never
This was the crinoline as they wore it ing, wide-hemmed skirts. This dress is in coarse been washed before should be well 1
a few brace white lace with a curved bened bodice. The seventy years ago--and as soaked beforehand in cold water, to
It is made of black skirt is held out on a stiff taffeta petticoat; the which kitchen salt has been added women are wearing it now. in the proportion of a handful to a taffeta with a quilted, strapless bodice, pointed top tier is gathered to the waist, stiffened b
doten orer a billowing, circular skirt. Hoops horachair net underneath to stand out in folds.
gallon of water.
covers
USEFUL HINTS
STALE loaf can be made like new by first lightly sprinkling
it with milk, and wrapping it in a paper bug. Put in a fairly hot oven for five minutes, then remove the the loaf for u return paper and similar time.
It too much sult has been atided to soup or gravy, stir in a little sugar, and the unpleasant taste will not be noticed.
clarifled When frying fish. use dripping or salad oil to minimise the odour, and wall until a thin blue vapour rises, for this indicates the right time has arrived to put in the fish.
It the oven containing meat be- comes too hot, reduce its tempera- ture by placing a bowl of water inside. for the steam will eventually moisten the air and so prevent the meat burning.
Before coolding a joint that appears to be tough, rub it with vinegar and allow it to stand for an hour or two- before cooking, as this helps to make It tender.
oil are If a few drops of olive
washing added to the water when chaols leather gloves, they will not became hard or stiff, and incidental-
ly the leather will be preserved.
Try rubbing a clothes line with
i white wax, for not only does it make
It waterproof, but it lasts longer and
This type of semi-crinoline dress is good for is easier to keep clean. Very soiled crelonne curtains and hold the skirt out to its full width; looped
Ash trays will not become dis- also need soaking in cold flounces of taffeta and lace run round the skirt, small people (the Duchess of Gloucester and water before being washed, and it will help to free them from grime following the lines of the hoops. Ilem of the the Queen wore dresses rather like it recently). coloured it the interior is lined with Bodice and waist are light-fitting as far as the After cleaning suede gloves with if borax is added to the cold-water skirt is gathered into the bottom flounce. bath, as well as to the warm soapy Here is the latest-of-all version of the hips; from there the skirt springs out in stiff benzene, hang them outdoors to dry. water used for laundering the cre- 2 crinoline line, just out in America-a tiered folds over a stiffened petticoat. The dress is in the brush
tonne.
Unfall.
On no account must soap be rub-skirt. Don't attempt tiers unless you are pretty forget-me-not blue slipper satin, with a ruffle of to bring up the pile and give them bed on the fabric. It should be tall, but if you are then go all out for them. They dark blue lace round the bodice, up and down really fresh appearance. gently squeezed and rubbed with the hands in two lathers, made with are a good deal casier to wear than the spread- round the hips and edging the petticoat.
Soup without soda, till It appears to
be perfectly fresh and clean.
Then
It la rendy for rinsing, Brat in warm,
and then in cold, water. Drying
must be away. from sun and fire.
and ironing should be on the wrong
sido.
GUARD THEIR EYES
tepid water and drop a small counter
r marble in it.
Then tell him to put his face ko the water and open his eyes and see what the marble looks like that way. This will get him used to the tica of opening his eyes in water the eyelatis,
Chintz is best dry-cleaned, eitherHE problem of keeping | professionally or at home, by rub THE problem of keen and of seeing that when he is reading of opening his eyes in water bing gently with clean cotton wad-
ding which will remove all loose interested dust so long as the surface is still, baffling. glossy.
the obvious precautions or writing he is sitting at the right ix often pretty height, In the right light (which should always come from behind good when five-year-old Johnny him), and is dealing with If washing becomes essential, it
learns to read and write a bit, or clear print, you should make a rule must be done in a good roopy lather, do little jobs by himself, it is a treat that at first the child doesn't work followed by a warm and cold rinse for his parents. Strong, very stiff starch is required
So
to restore the glaze. A tablespoon- But it is important to remember first yencs of reading, ful of starch is mixed to a cream that these with two tablespoonfuls of water; to studying or doing any sort of close this is added one tablespoonful of work at all may easily be a strain White wax, finely shredded, and half on your child's eyes.
a teaspoonful of Bornx Bissolved in
more than an hour a day,
Encourage him to rest his eyes when he is not working.
Tenching children to wash their eyes carefully every day is really ns brush Important as teaching them
You can start by bath- Up to the time he is four or five their teeth.
n very little hot water. One pint of years old, Johnny has used his eyes ing them with a piece of cotton wool Boiling water is added and the chintz rather vaguely. He has done a lot soaked in eye lotion, but the best You can Is then rubbed well with starch and of staring at the sky, for instance: way is to use an eyebath.
he has watched people and animals get a lotion specially recommended hung to dry.
eyes which is sold Before froning it must be well and things, but as a whole rather for children's
with an eyebath thrown in. damped and folded, then pressed than in dotali. with very hot irons, wiping it first Now, when he learns to read, It's not always easy at first to with a damp cloth. A polishing-write and do little sums, bo is also get a small child to open his eyes' Iron is best for gelling a good glaze.learning to concentrate both his in an eyebath. One way of start-
it. W. B. mind and his eyes.
Ing him off is to fill a basin with
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The Day of all Days
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